Winnipeg, Manitoba Cake design that includes Philippine carabao and Canadian polar bear got top prize By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez A team from a Filipino-Canadian bakery won this year’s The Big Bake: Holiday, which is Food Network Canada’s baking competition. The team that represented Sugar Blooms and Cakes, located on McPhillips Street in Winnipeg, beat two […]
Filipino-Canadian bakery’s team wins cake competition Read More »
Teilhard Paradela, more commonly known as Telly in the Philippines or Ty in Canada, completed his PhD in History at the University of British Columbia in 2022. Their dissertation is entitled, “Audiences Exposed: Communication and Discipline in the Philippines in the 20th Century.” They completed a Master of Arts, International Performance Research in 2010 at
The Class of 2022: Teilhard Paradela Read More »
Winnipeg, Manitoba Until the Next Rising, The Final Storm! Levy Abad (Dec 17, 2022) To be hated by lords and oppressors To be calumnized by wolves Attacked by traitors and snakes Jailed, tortured, slayed by butchers Such is the path of revolutionaries To be embraced by the exploited workers Esteemed by enslaved serfs Wept upon by patriotic
Winnipeg songwriter and poet pays tribute to Prof. Jose Maria Sison Read More »
Winnipeg, Manitoba Promotion of heritage, multiculturalism in growing Filipino population By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez The Winnipeg School Division (WSD) is launching a Filipino bilingual program next school year with the goal of teaching subjects in Tagalog. The program will be for kindergarten and grade 1 students and it was initiated by the Manitoba Association of
Winnipeg school to launch Filipino bilingual program Read More »
Winnipeg, Manitoba Damien Grayda leads 5-member team to victory Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Winnipeg engineer Damien Grayda, a Lakehead University graduate, lead his team to a second place victory in the 2022 AISC-ASCE Student Steel Bridge National Finals held last May in Virginia, U.S.A. Grayda, a 2022 Engineering graduate of Thunder Bay, Ontario’s Lakehead University, lead
The Class of 2022: Winnipeg engineer leads team as top bridge buiders Read More »
Vancouver, B.C. Her love for basketball, filmmaking takes her places By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Multi-awarded Filipino Canadian filmmaker Kathleen Jayme will be seeing her work again in wide screens all over Canada this winter with the nationwide screening of her feature film “The Grizzlie Truth.” A documentary that uncovers the reason why Vancouver lost its
Fil-Canadian director’s film to be shown all over Canada Read More »
Winnipeg, Manitoba Paul Ong’s concerts raised close to $100,000 in donations to local charities By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez A Filipino-educator and renowned musician made it to CBC Manitoba’s Future 40—a list of 10 outstanding young Manitobans under the age of 40 who are making a difference in their communities. Out of more than a hundred
Filipino musician makes it to CBC Manitoba’s Future 40 list Read More »
Surrey, B.C. Celebration of Life for son of community leader held By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez From the search for a missing teen until the ceremony remembering his brief life, the Filipino community in British Columbia was there for the Belgica family with an outpouring of support and comfort. Cliff Belgica, a leader of the
Filipino community members show support for Belgica family Read More »
Vancouver, B.C. Filipino-Canadian filmmaker believes ‘it can only get better from here’ By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez A drama film with animation about the loss of a childhood friend won first place in the recently concluded SNG Indie Short Film Festival in Vancouver. “One More Game,” which as written and directed by Kevin Ang, bested all
3 Filipino short films win in Indie film festival in Vancouver Read More »
Regina, Saskatchewan Prayers, determination, hardwork brought Fiscal Jalmanzar to the goal of becoming a lawyer in Canada By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez A former city prosecutor in Quezon City, Philippines was recently appointed as one of the crown prosecutors of Saskatchewan, Canada—a feat that is probably a first by a Filipino immigrant in the province. Ronald
Newly appointed Saskatchewan crown prosecutor is a Filipino Read More »
